At
change.org you can submit your ideas for the Obama Administration, as well as comment and vote on other submissions. On Inauguration Day, the top-10 ideas for change will be presented to President Obama. Right now citizens are discussing ideas such as a
Do Not Mail Registry to Stop Junk Mail,
Single-Payer Health Insurance for All Americans,
Vegan School Lunch Options, and
End the Phony War on Terror.

The building schedule for skyscrapers and a memorial planned for New York City's Ground Zero have been tossed out by the World Trade Center owners, due to unrealistic goals and rising costs.
Planners
will announce a new timetable this September, seven years after the Twin Towers fell, according to BBC. Officials previously promised that the Freedom Tower, set to replace the destroyed towers while taking the title of the nation's tallest building, would be complete in 2006, then 2011, and finally in 2013.

Novelist Andre Dubus III wanted to write a book about a stripper. Instead he ended up telling a
story about sordid events leading up to September 11, 2001.
At the center of the 535-page novel —
The Garden of Last Days — sits Bassam, one of the 9/11 hijackers, who spent time at a Florida strip club four days before the attack.